FRM Part I

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Foundations of Risk Management

  • The Building Blocks of Risk Management

  • How Do Firms Manage Financial Risk?

  • The Governance of Risk Management

  • Credit Risk Transfer Mechanisms

  • Modern Portfolio Theory and Capital Asset Pricing Model

  • The Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Multifactor Models of Risk and Return

  • Principles for Effective Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting

  • Enterprise Risk Management and Future Trends

  • Learning from Financial Disasters

  • Anatomy of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

  • GARP Code of Conduct

Quantitative Analysis

  • Fundamentals of Probability

  • Random Variables

  • Common Univariate Random Variables

  • Multivariate Random Variables

  • Sample Moments

  • Hypothesis Testing

  • Linear Regression

  • Regression with Multiple Explanatory Variables

  • Regression Diagnostics

  • Stationary Time Series

  • Non-stationary Time Series

  • Measuring Returns, Volatility, and Correlation

  • Simulation and Bootstrapping

Financial Markets and Products

  • Banks

  • Insurance Companies and Pension Plans

  • Fund Management

  • Introduction to Derivatives

  • Exchanges and OTC Markets

  • Central Clearing

  • Futures Markets

  • Using Futures for Hedging

  • Foreign Exchange Markets

  • Pricing Financial Forwards and Futures

  • Commodity Forwards and Futures

  • Options Markets

  • Properties of Options

  • Trading Strategies

  • Exotic Options

  • Properties of Interest Rates

  • Corporate Bonds

  • Mortgages and Mortgage-Backed Securities

  • Interest Rate Futures

  • Swaps

Valuation and Risk Models

  • Measures of Financial Risk

  • Calculating and Applying VaR

  • Measuring and Monitoring Volatility

  • External and Internal Credit Ratings

  • Country Risk: Determinants, Measures, and Implications

  • Measuring Credit Risk

  • Operational Risk

  • Stress Testing

  • Pricing Conventions, Discounting, and Arbitrage

  • Interest Rates

  • Bond Yields and Return Calculations

  • Applying Duration, Convexity, and DV01

  • Modeling Non-Parallel Term Structure Shifts and Hedging

  • Binomial Trees

  • The Black-Scholes-Merton Model

  • Option Sensitivity Measures: The "Greeks"

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